Breathe: Songs to calm your nerves
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🗓️ 16 July 2024
⏱️ 66 minutes
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Note: This episode originally ran on March 26, 2024.
Featured songs and artists:
• Marconi Union: "Weightless"
• Mary Lattimore: "Wawa by the Ocean" from 'Collected Pieces'
• Van-Anh Nguyen and Noshika Masuda: "Spiegel im Spiegel" by Arvo Pärt
• Brian McBride: "Girl Nap" from 'The Effective Disconnect'
• Laraaji: "Meditation No. 1" from 'Day of Radiance'
• Arooj Aftab: "Saans Lo" from 'Vulture Prince'
• Eluvium: "One" from 'Talk Amongst The Trees'
• Enya: "Watermark" from 'Watermark'
• Adele: "Somoene Like You" from '21'
• Dame Kiri Te Kanawa, John Pritchard & London • Philharmonic Orchestra: "O Mio babbino caro" from 'Kiri Te Kanawa Sings Puccini and Verdi'
• Yo La Tengo: "Our Way To Fall" from 'And Then Nothing Turned Itself Inside-Out'
• Cassandra Jenkins: "Hard Drive" from 'An Overview of Phenomenal Nature'
• Ruth Laredo: "Clair de Lune" from 'My First Recital'
• Rachika Nayar: "Our Wretched Fantasy" from 'Heaven Come Crashing'
• Radiohead: "Everything in its Right Place" from 'Kid A'
• Clem Snide: "Nick Drake Tape" from 'A Beautiful EP'
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| 0:25.0 | I was told there would be Reiki Heelers. |
| 0:28.0 | Oh, yeah, sorry guys. |
| 0:31.0 | Sorry guys, they had to cancel. Can you think of any reason why we don't have |
| 0:35.4 | Reiki healers here Hazel I was just thinking you guys don't need it oh |
| 0:41.2 | because we're so... Oh, I think the truth will maybe come out in this |
| 0:47.2 | episode. I think you will find out just how not fine we really are. Here, let just hit this this piece we're here. I want you all to remember that you are living breathing |
| 1:19.0 | creatures on this planet. You're surrounded by people who love you and it's going to be it's going to be okay. It's going to be a good day Hazel Sills |
| 1:27.4 | Stephen Thompson |
| 1:29.8 | Let's just take stock here. How's everyone's stress level been? |
| 1:33.4 | Hazel. My stress level on a scale of 1 to 10 has been at an 11. |
| 1:39.2 | This stress goes to 11. |
| 1:41.0 | This stress goes to 11. |
| 1:42.0 | This stress goes to 11, So it's different than other stress levels. No it's been |
| 1:47.8 | it's been okay it could be better I'm making it. You're here you're here. |
| 1:52.1 | I'm making it. You're here. You're here. I'm somewhere around Hazel, around that 10 to 11. |
| 1:57.0 | You know, we, you know, we just bought a new car and then hit some road debris and so I've been on the |
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